Syperek and Wade document the plethora of recent curatorial projects that take the sea as a subject, positioning this work as a rich repository of innovative thought and practice. They reflect on the inherent entanglements of art and science, climate and colonialism, humans and nonhumans, space and place, and past, present, and future in various instances of oceanic curating. 

The current show at apexart, a non-profit contemporary art gallery in New York, is made for readers. In part because it’s made of readings. The show is small. There are more words in its title—You can’t get there from here but you can get here from there—than there are works in the show.